FUL vs. CSWI, HUN, AVNT, CC, AMR, SMG, NXE, ASH, BCPC, and CRS
Should you be buying H.B. Fuller stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of H.B. Fuller include CSW Industrials (CSWI), Huntsman (HUN), Avient (AVNT), Chemours (CC), Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), NexGen Energy (NXE), Ashland (ASH), Balchem (BCPC), and Carpenter Technology (CRS). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
CSW Industrials (NASDAQ:CSWI) and H.B. Fuller (NYSE:FUL) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
82.8% of CSW Industrials shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.9% of H.B. Fuller shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of CSW Industrials shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of H.B. Fuller shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
H.B. Fuller has a consensus price target of $86.20, suggesting a potential upside of 8.62%. Given CSW Industrials' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe H.B. Fuller is more favorable than CSW Industrials.
H.B. Fuller has higher revenue and earnings than CSW Industrials. H.B. Fuller is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CSW Industrials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CSW Industrials has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, H.B. Fuller has a beta of 1.52, meaning that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
H.B. Fuller received 71 more outperform votes than CSW Industrials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.02% of users gave CSW Industrials an outperform vote while only 56.29% of users gave H.B. Fuller an outperform vote.
CSW Industrials has a net margin of 12.47% compared to CSW Industrials' net margin of 4.39%. H.B. Fuller's return on equity of 18.47% beat CSW Industrials' return on equity.
CSW Industrials pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. H.B. Fuller pays an annual dividend of $0.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. CSW Industrials pays out 13.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. H.B. Fuller pays out 32.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. CSW Industrials has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years and H.B. Fuller has raised its dividend for 56 consecutive years. H.B. Fuller is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, H.B. Fuller had 6 more articles in the media than CSW Industrials. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for H.B. Fuller and 2 mentions for CSW Industrials. CSW Industrials' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat H.B. Fuller's score of 0.47 indicating that H.B. Fuller is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
H.B. Fuller beats CSW Industrials on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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